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August 05, 2024
Rising Star: Quinn Emanuel's Dylan Scher
Dylan I. Scher of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP helped defeat trademark claims lodged against his client, Jackpot, an app for buying lottery tickets, earning him a spot among the media and entertainment law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 05, 2024
Pennsylvania Legislation To Watch In 2024: A Midyear Report
The Pennsylvania Legislature is following other jurisdictions striving to make social media safer while preserving free speech, and putting stricter limits on "forever chemicals" that had been widely used in firefighting applications and products for resisting stains and stickiness. Here, Law360 looks at some of the Pennsylvania bills attorneys are watching in 2024.
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August 02, 2024
Judge Knocks Stuffing Out Of Build-A-Bear's Missouri IP Suit
A Missouri federal judge on Friday tossed Build-A-Bear Workshop's lawsuit seeking a declaration that its new Skoosherz stuffed toy line doesn't infringe trade dress rights claimed by Kelly Toys' popular Squishmallows, finding that the Missouri court doesn't have jurisdiction over the IP dispute, which is also being litigated in California.
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August 02, 2024
NFL's $4.7B Hail Mary Hinged On Debunking Experts
A California federal court tossed a $4.7 billion jury verdict Thursday in an antitrust case over the NFL's Sunday Ticket broadcast package due to concerns about experts that testified for the subscribers, but the move raises questions about why the court waited so long to exclude them.
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August 02, 2024
Hospital Says 'Maya' Case Shouldn't Have Gone To Jury
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Inc. asked a Florida appeals court on Friday to undo a $208 million judgment for the family of Maya Kowalski, the girl at the heart of the Netflix documentary "Take Care of Maya," arguing that their claims that the hospital's treatment of Maya caused her mother's suicide should never have gone to a jury.
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August 02, 2024
Class Suit Over Changed Music Venue Changes Conn. Forums
A proposed class of ticket buyers who claim to have been shortchanged when an organizer suddenly shortened a three-day Connecticut music festival and moved the event to a much smaller venue have refiled consumer protection, contract and negligence claims in state court Thursday after pulling a short-lived federal complaint.
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August 02, 2024
Supporters Of TikTok Ban Make Case To DC Circ.
Federal lawmakers, state governments, former U.S. national security officials, human rights nonprofits and antimonopoly advocates all urged the D.C. Circuit to uphold Congress' TikTok sale-or-ban law Friday, the final day for amici briefs to be filed in the Chinese company's challenge.
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August 02, 2024
Microphone Co. Eyes Sanctions After Scoring Win In IP Row
A maker of microphone isolation products that won a trade dress infringement lawsuit at trial has asked a California federal court to order a rival and its counsel to pay its attorney fees because of a "repeated pattern of vexatious litigation in the face of overwhelming and contrary law."
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August 02, 2024
Ill. Gov. Pritzker Signs BIPA Reform Into Law
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed biometric privacy reform legislation into law on Friday, significantly reducing companies' potential liability for collecting or sharing individuals' fingerprint and other biometric data without informed consent.
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August 02, 2024
Public Interest Groups Back ISP Bulk Billing Opt-Out
More than 30 public interest groups urged the Federal Communications Commission to allow consumers in multitenant environments to "escape" bulk billing for broadband service but quickly saw pushback from an industry group that calls the arrangements beneficial.
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August 02, 2024
Chancery Won't Force Open Paramount's Books On Skydance
A pension fund shareholder that sued Paramount Global for more information on its pending merger with Skydance Media may not have access to the entertainment company's corporate documents because the pension fund hasn't shown a "credible basis" to suspect wrongdoing, Delaware's Court of Chancery ruled Friday.
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August 02, 2024
DOJ Says Apple 'Has No Basis' To Delay Discovery
The U.S. Department of Justice is urging a New York federal judge to get the ball rolling on discovery in its case accusing Apple of anticompetitively restricting app access to lock users into the iPhone.
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August 02, 2024
Privacy & Cybersecurity Midyear Report: 4 Areas To Watch
New York and Colorado shook up the data privacy landscape by enacting groundbreaking laws protecting children online and clamping down on high-risk uses of artificial intelligence during the first half of 2024, and both states and the federal government are expected to devote considerable attention to these areas in the coming months.
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August 02, 2024
Manhattan DA Slams Trump's 'Regurgitated' Recusal Bid
The Manhattan district attorney pilloried Donald Trump's renewed request for the judge overseeing his hush money case to recuse himself, branding it a "regurgitated" attempt to rehash issues the court already decided without any new facts — besides Kamala Harris' presidential bid.
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August 02, 2024
DC Circ. Rejects Speech Rights Challenge To DMCA
A D.C. Circuit panel on Friday knocked down a challenge to a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that bars circumventing digital locks on copyrighted material, ruling that the law is in line with the First Amendment.
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August 02, 2024
Judge Snuffs Out Collectibles Exec's Bid For New Fraud Trial
A New York federal judge has spurned the efforts of a collectibles entrepreneur convicted of fraud to get a new trial, saying notes the defendant believes would have swayed the outcome are not as important as he thinks and probably inadmissible.
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August 02, 2024
Alec Baldwin's Prosecution Ripped In 'Rust' Order
A New Mexico judge who dismissed the "Rust" shooting case against Alec Baldwin has issued a scathing order finding that the lead prosecutor "intentionally and deliberately" withheld evidence from the defense, gave "inconsistent" testimony during an evidentiary hearing and elicited false testimony from a witness.
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August 02, 2024
More Tribes Suing Social Media For Teen Addiction, Suicides
Two more Native American tribes have filed suit against a slew of social media companies, alleging that over the past decade they've contributed to a growing body of research that directly links their platforms to a youth mental health crisis that's plaguing Indian Country.
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August 02, 2024
DOJ Sues TikTok For Sweeping Children's Privacy Breaches
The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday hit TikTok and its parent company with a highly anticipated lawsuit accusing the short-form video app of engaging in "widespread" violations of children's privacy law by collecting a "wide variety" of personal information from kids under 13 without parental consent.
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August 02, 2024
Off The Bench: NFL Reversal, Drone Spying, UFC Deal Tossed
In this week's Off The Bench, a bombshell ruling wipes out a $4.7 billion antitrust verdict against the NFL, Canada takes it on the chin for Olympic drone spying, and a nine-figure settlement to address UFC wage suppression is rejected.
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August 02, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen insurance broker Marsh sue the collapsed Greensill Bank, the former chair of the Islamic Students Association of Britain pursue a defamation case against the Jewish Chronicle, Berkshire Hathaway and Lloyd's face action from a shipping company, and alleged fraudster Ronald Bauer hit a loan company with a claim. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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August 02, 2024
Banking Vet Still Has Work To Do As Paul Weiss M&A Head
After a long tenure in banking, including as Morgan Stanley's global head of mergers and acquisitions, Rob Kindler could have rested on his laurels. Instead, Kindler joined Paul Weiss as its global chair of M&A and has led the team that represented Envestnet Inc. on its July 11 deal to sell the business to Bain Capital for $4.5 billion. He spoke with Law360 about what he sees ahead.
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August 01, 2024
Roberta Kaplan's New Firm Nabs 2 Attys From Former Firm
Kaplan Martin LLP, the firm co-founded in June by intrepid litigator Robbie Kaplan, announced Thursday that two seasoned attorneys are joining as partners from Kaplan's previous firm, Hecker Fink LLP.
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August 01, 2024
Amazon Scores Default Win Against Counterfeit Sellers
Amazon secured a default judgment Thursday in Washington federal court against sellers of counterfeit luxury goods who worked with social media influencers to promote fake Hermes, Chanel and Christian Dior products, after the sellers failed to respond to Amazon's complaint by deadline.
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August 01, 2024
NFL Sacks $4.7B Sunday Ticket Verdict With Post-Trial Win
A California federal judge on Thursday overturned a Los Angeles jury's $4.7 billion verdict against the National Football League for violating antitrust laws with its Sunday Ticket television package, granting the league a post-trial win by finding that the plaintiffs' damages experts presented "flawed methodologies."
Expert Analysis
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Trump's NY Civil Fraud Trial Spotlights Long-Criticized Law
A New York court’s recent decision holding former President Donald Trump liable for fraud brought old criticisms of the state law used against him back into the limelight — including its strikingly broad scope and its major departures from the traditional elements of common law fraud, say Mark Kelley and Lois Ahn at MoloLamken.
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Opinion
Requiring Leave To File Amicus Briefs Is A Bad Idea
A proposal to amend the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure that would require parties to get court permission before filing federal amicus briefs would eliminate the long-standing practice of consent filing and thereby make the process less open and democratic, says Lawrence Ebner at the Atlantic Legal Foundation and DRI Center.
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Film Plagiarism Claims May Foreshadow AI Copyright Issues
The contentious plagiarism dispute over the Oscar-nominated screenplay for "The Holdovers" may portend the challenges screenwriters will face when attempting to prove copyright infringement against scripts generated by artificial intelligence technology, says Craig Smith at Lando & Anastasi.
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4 Ways To Motivate Junior Attorneys To Bring Their Best
As Gen Z and younger millennial attorneys increasingly express dissatisfaction with their work and head for the exits, the lawyers who manage them must understand and attend to their needs and priorities to boost engagement and increase retention, says Stacey Schwartz at Katten.
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Decoding The FTC's Latest Location Data Crackdown
Following the Federal Trade Commission's groundbreaking settlements in its recent enforcement actions against X-Mode Social and InMarket Media for deceptive and unfair practices with regards to consumer location data, companies should implement policies with three crucial elements for regulatory compliance and maintaining consumer trust, says Hannah Ji-Otto at Baker Donelson.
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Contract Negotiation Prep Checklist For In-House Ad Lawyers
Barriers for in-house lawyers and procurement professionals persist in media and ad tech contract negotiations — but a pre-negotiation checklist can help counsel navigate nuances and other industry issues that need to be considered before landing a deal, including supplier services, business use cases and data retrieval, says Keri Bruce at Reed Smith.
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Series
Serving As A Sheriff's Deputy Made Me A Better Lawyer
Skills developed during my work as a reserve deputy — where there was a need to always be prepared, decisive and articulate — transferred to my practice as an intellectual property litigator, and my experience taught me that clients often appreciate and relate to the desire to participate in extracurricular activities, says Michael Friedland at Friedland Cianfrani.
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Fears About The End Of Chevron Deference Are Overblown
While some are concerned about repercussions if the U.S. Supreme Court brings an end to Chevron deference in the Loper and Relentless cases this term, agencies and attorneys would survive just fine under the doctrines that have already begun to replace it, say Daniel Wolff and Henry Leung at Crowell & Moring.
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How Suit Over An AI George Carlin May Lead To Legislation
George Carlin’s estate recently sued a company over an artificial intelligence-generated podcast allegedly impersonating the late comedian, highlighting the importance of much-needed state and federal protection against unauthorized representations of an individual’s image in the time of AI, say Anna Chauvet and Maxime Jarquin at Finnegan.
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Former Minn. Chief Justice Instructs On Writing Better Briefs
Former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Justice Lorie Gildea, now at Greenberg Traurig, offers strategies on writing more effective appellate briefs from her time on the bench.
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Stay Interviews Are Key To Retaining Legal Talent
Even as the economy shifts and layoffs continue, law firms still want to retain their top attorneys, and so-called stay interviews — informal conversations with employees to identify potential issues before they lead to turnover — can be a crucial tool for improving retention and morale, say Tina Cohen Nicol and Kate Reder Sheikh at Major Lindsey.
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AI In Accounting Raises OT Exemption Questions
A recent surge in the use of artificial intelligence in accounting work calls into question whether professionals in the industry can argue they are no longer overtime exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act, highlighting how technology could test the limits of the law for a variety of professions, say Bradford Kelley at Littler and Stephen Malone at Peloton Interactive.
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Independent Regulator Could Chip Away At FIFA Autonomy
After the U.K.'s recent proposal for an independent football regulator, FIFA's commitment to safeguarding football association autonomy remains unwavering, despite a history of complexities arising from controversies in the bidding and hosting of major tournaments, say Yasin Patel at Church Court Chambers and Caitlin Haberlin-Chambers at SLAM Global.
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The Fed. Circ. In February: A Reminder On Procedure Rule 28
Because the Federal Circuit does not often issue a sua sponte precedential order emphasizing an important rule of practice, it is useful to look at how the court applied the restrictions of appellate procedure Rule 28 in Promptu v. Comcast last month, and in cases that preceded it, say Jeremiah Helm and Sean Murray at Knobbe Martens.
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Take AG James' Suit Over Enviro Claims As A Warning
New York Attorney General Letitia James' recent suit against JBS USA Food Co. over allegedly misleading claims about its goal to reach net zero by 2040 indicates that challenges to green claims are likely to continue, and that companies should think twice about ignoring National Advertising Division recommendations, say attorneys at Kelley Drye.